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Eric Garner’s 16-month-old daughter Legacy and her mother, Jewel Miller *The chance of Eric Garner’s daughter being accepted in to his family are slim to none, according to Garner’s widow. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Esaw Garner mentioned that although 16-month-old Legacy is her husband’s daughter with another woman, she […]

Esaw Garner (wife of Eric) bursts to tears as Revs. Herbert Daughtry (left) and Al Sharpton (right) console her. *Esaw Snipes, the widow of Eric Garner, has reached an agreement with the city of New York to settle out of court the wrongful death case of Eric Garner for $5.9 million. In addition to the […]

Eric Garner Jr. and NYC BLM leader Hawk Newsome / photo via Twitter *Eric Garner Jr. has clapped back at the leader of a Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapter in New York over comments made about Mayor-elect Eric Adams.  New York BLM chapter leader Hawk Newsome said the city would erupt in “riots and […]

The Rev. Al Sharpton, second from right, is joined by Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr, left, daughter Erica Garner, second from left, son Eric Garner, third from left, daughter Emerald Snipes, third from right, and wife Esaw Snipes *Dang, talk about throwing some ish into the game. The court-appointed attorney for Eric Garner‘s love child is […]

Eric & Esaw Garner *As we reported earlier, Esaw Garner, the widow of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who was killed by NYPD officers with an illegal chokehold in July of 2014, turned down a settlement offer by the city of $5 million dollars. Now the NY Times is reporting that the two sides […]

*Unfortunately, we have some very bad news we have to pass along to you on Christmas Day. Tragedy has struck the family of Eric garner again. According to news reports, Erica Garner, who became an anti-police brutality advocate after her father’s death (literally) at the hands police, suffered a heart attack Saturday night and as […]

Eric Garner choke hold pics *(Via BusinessInsider) – The parallels between Eric Garner’s senseless killing by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo on a Staten Island sidewalk in the summer of 2014 and Daunte Wright’s recent death are striking. Both were stopped for victimless crimes, and both died because police officers unnecessarily escalated situations in which they […]

* Eric Garner’s daughter allegedly threatened the mother of his love child, so the woman’s lawyer has demanded a restraining order against the late Staten Islander’s oldest daughter Erica. NY Daily News reports that Erica took to Facebook to specifically targeted her father’s one-time girlfriend Jewel Miller, raising concerns about her safety and that of […]

[…] ABC News town hall event with President Obama that she walked out in protest. She says the network broke its promise to highlight her questions. The daughter of Eric Garner, the man who was put in a chokehold and killed by NYPD police officers on camera is now denouncing the session on race, saying she was […]

Daniel Pantaleo – Eric Garner (in chokehold) via YouTube *The man who filmed the police killing of Eric Garner in 2014 has been released from prison after serving four years. In 2016, Ramsey Orta was sentenced to prison for weapon possession as well as drug charges, per New York Daily News.  A year after filming Garner’s fatal arrest, Orta expressed regret for getting involved because the public attention ruined his life, Time magazine reported.  “Sometimes I regret just not minding my business,” he said. “Because it just put me in a messed-up predicament.” Ramsey Orta Here’s more from the Time report: Orta released the video to the New York Daily News the day after Garner’s death. Since then, Orta says that police have harassed him and his family. In the weeks after Garner’s death, he released two videos on YouTube in which he claims he was unfairly targeted by police. He says he was stopped twice for robberies in which he had no involvement and claims that police shone lights in the windows of his Staten Island home. On Feb. 10, Orta, his mother, and brother, Michael Batista, were arrested on multiple drug charges after police entered their home in the early morning hours. All three were charged with multiple felony and misdemeanor drug counts. Those cases are still pending. Orta’s mother says she’s been in therapy since the incident for what she describes as post-traumatic stress disorder. OTHER NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: Marques Houston, 38, Defends His Engagement to 19-Year-Old Fiancé Miya “The NYPD tried to send a message to New Yorkers and the world: if you film the police kill someone, it is you who is going to pay…. This messaging backfired and has only galvanized more people.” – @WeCopwatch on #RamseyOrta EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW on #AbolishThePolice and more >> https://t.co/fyp0lQ2S26 pic.twitter.com/9ib1368kab — Anti-Fascist AWK (@AWKWORDrap) June 9, 2020 Orta believes he was targeted by New York police after video went viral of Garner’s chokehold death at the hands of Officer Daniel Pantaleo.  Pantaleo was found guilty at a disciplinary trial, and fired in August 2019 without pension for using a chokehold […]

[…] Change, Center for Constitutional Rights, Working Families & New York State Nurses Association among rally partners *NEW YORK – One Year since the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, no federal charges have been filed against the officer who killed Mr. Garner in Staten Island and three years after the police shooting of teenager Ramarley […]

*Although he knows he did the right thing, Ramsey Orta views filming the death of Eric Garner as something he regrets. Orta shared his reasons for his regrets during an interview with Time magazine, saying that life has drastically changed for him and his family since that fateful day in July 2014 when he captured […]

*We’ve got an update on the Eric Garner case and the news is not good. The bottom line is the Justice Department will NOT bring federal charges against the NYPD officer who killed Garner with a chokehold in 2014. Needless to say, the decision is disappointing, but it is a long-expected end to a case […]

*According to lawyers involved with the Eric Garner wrongful death case, the city of New York will be paying out $4 million to his family, from a $5.9 million settlement approved by a Staten Island judge. Garner died in July 2014 after police placed him in a chokehold while he was being arrested for selling […]

 *Daniel Pantaleo, the NYC police officer who applied the chokehold on Eric Garner has been suspended by the department, it has just been announced. The news of Pantaleo’s suspension follows the announcement on Friday that a departmental administrative judge officially recommended that the officer be terminated as a result of his controversial involvement with […]